Balancing economic and ecological goals

Frank, Eyal G.; Schlenker, Wolfram

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“…Assessing a marine ecosystem in an integrated manner is difficult, but managing it is harder still, because it entails balancing economic and ecological goals (Frank and Schlenker 2016), allocating limited space and resources and making decisions about who, how, where and when those resources can be used. Consequently, MSP is often contentious, since in most cases the requirements for EU Member states) or issue facing a nation, sub-national state, municipality or local community.…”

Section: Ebm At Sea: Marine Spatial Planning (Msp)mentioning

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“…Many culturally related benefits, including spiritual, traditional or non-monetary cultural values associated with places, iconic species or other environmental features, as well as "existence values" such as biodiversity or clean water have rarely or ever been valued with economic methods (Frank and Schlenker 2016) and only a few, such as recreation and eutrophication reduction have been extensively valued monetarily. Thus policy makers intending to improve environmental status in the Baltic Sea (Sagebiel et al 2016) were unable to include such factors and other studies are likely to encounter the same problem.…”

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“…Consequently, ecosystems cannot be sustainably managed exclusively using economic valuation: social, political and ecological values must also be included. As Frank and Schlenker (2016) concluded, "economic growth is a crucial ingredient for preservation, but does not guarantee it. " Despite these problems, economic valuations command attention because money is so fundamental to human societies and because the magnitude of ES values is impressive.…”

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Navigating the seascape of ocean management: waypoints on the voyage toward sustainable use

Katona¹,

Polsenberg²,

Lowndes³

et al. 2017

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Some societies have sustainably managed their local marine resources for centuries using traditional methods, but we are only beginning to learn how to do it at larger scales, including globally. A broad, deep and constantly growing body of ocean knowledge has developed, adding many new concepts, perspectives, management models and analytical tools into the knowledge base in a relatively short period. Such rapid growth has created a potentially confusing mash-up of ideas, acronyms, The purpose of this paper is to assist policy makers, marine managers and those considering careers in this area by providing a short history of ocean management, its conceptual foundation, frameworks for modern management and examples of its application at different scales. Extensive literature exists to supplement the summarized information we present.We highlight the following terms as navigational markers through the 'seascape' 1 of marine management rhetoric: sustainability, ecosystem approach, ecosystem-based management, natural capital, ecosystem services, integrated ecosystem assessment, the causal framework DPSIR (Drivers, Pressures, States, Impacts, Responses) and its variants, indicators and reference points, marine area planning, marine spatial management (including decision support tools), adaptive ocean management and dynamic ocean management. We also point out the important roles of marine initiatives such as Blue Economy, the Ocean Health Index, Large Marine Ecosystems, Seascapes, Protected Areas and others. Understanding the similarities, differences, relationships and synergies among these activities increases the likelihood of achieving successful management processes or solutions. 1We use 'seascape' (lower case) to describe the panorama of concepts, acronyms, techniques, tools and regulations germane to marine management. 'Seascape' and 'Oceanscape' (upper case) signify specific programs for integrated management at large-scales.

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“…An important distinction is made between use values that capture benefits that are directly used by the people concerned and nonuse, existence, values that reflect the desire to preserve ecological entities (e.g., species) even if they are not used. Existence values are more difficult to assess than use values [69]. All of these kinds of surveys are time-consuming, so there is a temptation to use literature values; but this raises additional uncertainties because the values that people put on ecosystems are sensitive to socioeconomic circumstances.…”

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“…The management decision on how much extra treatment to deploy will depend on the extent to which costs of the technology make sense against the returns from the increased catch, all discounted to a common time. Willingness-to-pay surveys can also be used to assess the value that people put on the existence of a species (e.g., the state fish); however, in this case the relevant beneficiaries would be at least statewide, and designing an appropriate survey will therefore be challenging [69,70].…”

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A framework for predicting impacts on ecosystem services from (sub)organismal responses to chemicals

Forbes¹,

Salice

Birnir

et al. 2017

Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

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Abstract-Protection of ecosystem services is increasingly emphasized as a risk-assessment goal, but there are wide gaps between current ecological risk-assessment endpoints and potential effects on services provided by ecosystems. The authors present a framework that links common ecotoxicological endpoints to chemical impacts on populations and communities and the ecosystem services that they provide. This framework builds on considerable advances in mechanistic effects models designed to span multiple levels of biological organization and account for various types of biological interactions and feedbacks. For illustration, the authors introduce 2 case studies that employ well-developed and validated mechanistic effects models: the inSTREAM individual-based model for fish populations and the AQUATOX ecosystem model. They also show how dynamic energy budget theory can provide a common currency for interpreting organism-level toxicity. They suggest that a framework based on mechanistic models that predict impacts on ecosystem services resulting from chemical exposure, combined with economic valuation, can provide a useful approach for informing environmental management. The authors highlight the potential benefits of using this framework as well as the challenges that will need to be addressed in future work. Environ Toxicol Chem 2017;36:845-859. # 2017 SETAC Keywords-Ecological production function; Ecological risk assessment; Ecosystem service; Environmental management; Mechanistic effects model Challenges for Ecological Risk Assessment and ManagementThe primary goal of ecological risk assessment (ERA) of chemicals is to provide defensible science-based support for environmental management decisions. This involves making explicit connections between impacts on the benefits derived by people from ecosystems (so-called ecosystem services [1]) and the costs of managing the causes of those impacts. At the core of this approach is the need for relevant chemical exposure-response relationships. However, current ERA approaches often fall short in these regards because methods In This Issue: ET&C FOCUSFocus articles are part of a regular series intended to sharpen understanding of current and emerging topics of interest to the scientific community. for estimating and integrating exposure and effects are often based on overly simplistic assumptions [2,3]. For example, measures of organism-level toxicity (e.g., 50% effect concentrations) are used as indicators of population-level impacts of chemicals. A primary concern is that the kinds of information collected to support ERAs are far removed from the kinds of ecological entities (e.g., species or habitats) that are the targets of protection, which themselves are often only vaguely defined in legislation (e.g., European pesticides legislation refers to "no unacceptable effects on the environment"). In practice, protection goals for ecological systems are (implicitly or explicitly) often at the population, community, or ecosystem level (e.g., persistence or abundance of a p...

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Rivera‐Monroy¹,

Lee²,

Kristensen³

et al. 2017

Mangrove Ecosystems: A Global Biogeographic Perspective

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Balancing economic and ecological goals

Abstract: What are the trade-offs between economic development and ecosystem conservation?

Cited by 45 publications

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Navigating the seascape of ocean management: waypoints on the voyage toward sustainable use

Navigating the seascape of ocean management: waypoints on the voyage toward sustainable use

A framework for predicting impacts on ecosystem services from (sub)organismal responses to chemicals

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